soitently
You can call me Soi They/she 26 | queer | AuDHD | Mood reader | Audiobook lover I dabble in all genres, but speculative fiction is tops Cuddling with my pets Working on an MFA in creative writing 🫡
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It's a godforsaken hour and you're still awake!? What are you reading right now? Do share!
14soitently commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Inspired by @Lixxie222's earlier post: What was the last book you bought, and why did you buy it?*
*(for example - a pretty cover, the plot sounded cool, it was recommended, you loved it and wanted your own copy, you were treating yourself, etc etc.)
The last book I bought was The Names by Florence Knapp because it was a 5 star book that I couldn't stop thinking about and I wanted my own copy. I was at a bookstore where I had store credit so I figured why not (and I was able to get a used copy too so it was a bit cheaper!)
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Who doesn't love hate reading a book? It let's you take your frustrations on the book. 😌 What I want to know is, what was your favorite hate read? Like you were so pissed of by the book that you liked hate reading it. 😄 I think my most recent was The Rose Bargain. I guessed the plot being like 20% into the book and had to hate read it just to finish it. I couldn't tolerate half of the characters too. But my favorite has to be Shadow and Bone. I was so pissed of by everything. That's also why I didn't read the rest of the books. 😂 It only works when I don't know I'm going to hate it. 🤷♀️
87soitently is interested in reading...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
0soitently commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Good morning!
I have used Placeholder books a few times and I can't seem to find any now? I search them and the only thing that comes up are.....The Husband Stitch book cover as a placeholder (yikes) and a placeholder book with a cover about bricks and birds or something?
Are they just....not working or something? Has someone assigned a cover to them?
I'm attempting to read a fic that my friend wrote (Our Flag Means Death fic) and I'm just fully unable to find a placeholder book that doesn't have a cover or title attached to it. Am I searching incorrectly? (This is very likely also lmao)
Ideally I'd like to just use the one that has no title and no cover 😬
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Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
0soitently commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Since joining PB I feel like I've not been giving out as many 5 stars. I think in part this is because of the .5 rating system, so I have a lot of 4.5 rated books that I really really enjoyed and loved but I just felt like one tiny, small change might have made it an undeniable masterpiece for me. There's space for me to go: LOVED this! My enjoyment just wasn't 200% like a 5 star would be.
But I also think it's because of the forums😂 There's so much fantastic analysis and lots of different perspectives and I am soaking it all up. This both helps me articulate my latent feelings that I might not have explored fully before, or that I just couldn't rationalise. And then it also shows me different critiques and praises I wouldn't think of on my own. There's lots of new ideas and processes contributing to my reading process now that I think I've become a bit stingy with my 5 stars. But that doesn't mean I'm enjoying books less, or not reading favourites. I've just become more critical and discerning when quantifying my experience.
Has PB changed how you rate and/or interact with books? Or just generally how has PB impacted your reading habits?
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hi! i’ve been trying to look for books that are heavy on comedy while also being murder mystery (comedy whodunnits, something like the movie clue from 1985), but couldn’t find good ones or ones that really hit the mark 😵💫 with this, i want to ask if any of you guys have recommendations? 🥹 thank you sm in advance!!! <33
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Positive post-capitalist books
Someone made a post about this and I thought it was a great list idea. I know I really need books that have more positivity and hope for the future, so hopefully this will help someone else too.
Let me know if I get anything wrong. Please comment recommendations!
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The Seep
Chana Porter
0soitently commented on FarmerAl's review of The Eyes of the Dragon
4soitently is interested in reading...
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
0soitently commented on soitently's review of The Science of Getting Rich
This was terrible. I needed to read it for a class or I never would have picked it up.
This man spends at least half the book basically saying “what’s in this book WILL make you rich I promise it’s SCIENCE and PROVABLE” only to never include any science or proof whatsoever. He talks a lot about Christianity, God, and faith. He quotes many scriptures. It’s so ironic because the ideas he’s promoting don’t line up with how Jesus saw rich people in the Bible (saying this as someone who used to be Christian lol).
To sum up the whole book for you: To get rich, think exclusively about getting rich and manifest it. Ignore poverty, pretend like it doesn’t exist (because it’s not real!), and don’t read anything besides this book. Dont even consider any text or opinion outside this book, it will lead you astray! Don’t look at or read anything negative, don’t pay attention to negative things in the world at all. They’re not real. If you’re poor, you’re ignorant or not willing to do the intellectual labor of manifesting getting rich. Being rich is the most important thing you can do in life because you can’t do anything if not rich (he even says “love is denied expression by poverty). Rich people aren’t keeping you down, they have nothing to do with you. Treat “getting rich” as your religion.
I hated this so much.
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This was terrible. I needed to read it for a class or I never would have picked it up.
This man spends at least half the book basically saying “what’s in this book WILL make you rich I promise it’s SCIENCE and PROVABLE” only to never include any science or proof whatsoever. He talks a lot about Christianity, God, and faith. He quotes many scriptures. It’s so ironic because the ideas he’s promoting don’t line up with how Jesus saw rich people in the Bible (saying this as someone who used to be Christian lol).
To sum up the whole book for you: To get rich, think exclusively about getting rich and manifest it. Ignore poverty, pretend like it doesn’t exist (because it’s not real!), and don’t read anything besides this book. Dont even consider any text or opinion outside this book, it will lead you astray! Don’t look at or read anything negative, don’t pay attention to negative things in the world at all. They’re not real. If you’re poor, you’re ignorant or not willing to do the intellectual labor of manifesting getting rich. Being rich is the most important thing you can do in life because you can’t do anything if not rich (he even says “love is denied expression by poverty). Rich people aren’t keeping you down, they have nothing to do with you. Treat “getting rich” as your religion.
I hated this so much.
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"You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or to listen to those who do talk about it."
Poverty isn't real, it can't hurt you. - this guy
This was originally published in 1910 it looks like, so maybe things were different. But this sounds like it could have been published very recently, and it's crazy to me that there are people who think this way. Pretending something isn't real and refusing to look at it doesn't make it go away. We must look at and discuss these hard things so we can make life better for everyone. But he's very anti-charity in this book, so he would disagree with this for sure.
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